Word: maryland
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Illinois Senator Charles Percy came out for Rockefeller, and while his state's delegation is still regarded as predominantly pro-Nixon, the Percy-Rockefeller rapprochement* had psychological repercussions. There were three gubernatorial nonendorsements. James Rhodes of Ohio, Spiro Agnew of Maryland and George Romney of Michigan hung loose. The three states have 132 votes among them with enough Nixon sentiment to settle matters. As long as they remain even nominally neutral, however, Rockefeller and Reagan operatives can keep pleading elsewhere...
...provides for licensing gun owners or federal registration of firearms. The bitter opposition of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond had convinced the Senate's chief gun-control proponent, Joseph Tydings, that his only chance for a tough bill lay on the Senate floor itself, where the Maryland Democrat hopes to revive the measure after the conventions...
Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION...
...head of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which extends from North Carolina to Ohio, the Very Rev. Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years...
...philosophy from Fordham, and became a strong advocate of reform within the society. In 1957 he was named head of the Jesuits' Woodstock College, where he helped develop a brilliant staff of teaching theologians, which included the late Father John Courtney Murray. Three years ago, Sponga was named Maryland provincial, supervising 800 priests, lay brothers and seminarians...